Before erasers were invented, people used breadcrumbs to remove pencil marks. Hopefully, no one mistook their notes for lunch.

A library is a loophole in history. Every book a quiet rebellion. Every reader, a spark that won’t go out. 📚💙

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South Dakota is ALSO working on passing laws to criminalize librarians! Why the fuck aren’t more people getting mad? I feel like only a few of us are screaming about this. #booksky

The moon is just the sky’s bookmark, holding its place between days.

Books, like people, breathe. The paper expands and contracts with humidity, taking in the air around it. A library is alive in ways you can’t always see. 💙📚

Ink has a memory.

Ice is water, holding its breath.

The average pencil can draw a line at least two miles long; some even say the average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long!

checking out books from the library is legitimately so thrilling lol. like y’all trust me to TAKE these? for FREE??

A pen is a wand in disguise. 🖋️🪄

The University of Iowa’s library is home to the Charlotte M. Smith Collection, which boasts around 4,000 miniature books, each measuring less than 3 inches in height or width. This collection spans from the 17th century to the present, covering a broad range of subjects. 💙📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20) 🪐📚

Bees sometimes get drunk on fermented nectar and can’t fly straight back to the hive. Imagine being a drunk bee trying to explain yourself to your queen.

In Colombia, there’s a library that travels on the back of a donkey, bringing books to children in remote villages. If you could take a library anywhere in the world, where would it go?

Thank you Winter, for the way you polish the stars.

A yawn is a silent scream for coffee.

the main thing i've been trying to do in poems lately is surprise myself somehow in every line and idk if the poems are good but it's a helluva lot of fun

What if clouds are the sky’s forgotten dreams?

Ever heard of a hapax legomenon? It’s a word that appears only once in a text or even an entire language’s history—like a linguistic unicorn. Shakespeare used thousands of them, and they often carry mystery, power, or a one-time-only magic.

Words have power. Choose them carefully.

Didn’t know this was a thing, glad it survived!

ursula le guin is v good at writing. if you hadn't heard

If a Library Card is something you cherish Let’s be friends 💕

This one hits close to home. #booksky #reading

Anyone looking to ban a book from a school should have to prove they read it by presenting a book report to the school committee.

"Oh, what a shame you're 'just a children's bookshop." We hear this all too often. 📚 Children and teens deserve spaces and shops for them 📚 Children's and YA books change lives. It's not a shame we're a children's bookshop. It's a beautiful thing 💕

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

Which TTRPGs out there are designed to help you accomplish real-world tasks? Like cleaning, exercising, etc.?

Artist Ben Denzer created a book made entirely of processed cheese slices. I wonder if you read it with crackers?

#Trees can "remember" wetter times, shaping their growth for years after wet phases end. Researchers explain young trees that have never known abundant rain may be better equipped to survive in a chronically dry world: https://buff.ly/4gKGSBq 🌱 🌎 #climatesky #forestry #ecology

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Find the extraordinary in the ordinary. It's there, I promise.

i've seen a lot of people here recently worried about being annoying for talking about stuff they love or being happy about things but i promise it's never annoying and it makes it a better place here! you'll find the people that care and want to hear it as long as you're saying it ♡

So many paths to follow and no wizard gps...

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

Announcement! The Library of Lost Voices will be closed for maintenance this week. Please refrain from attempting to access any echoes of forgotten incantations until further notice. Also, if you happen to see a stray ink blot wandering the halls, kindly direct it to Professor Quimby's office.

Love this Helen Keller quote, thank you!

Doors are just walls that learned how to open up to new possibilities.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

We went to the library to browse some books and the kid is still glued to the inkconsole.com I guess he won't be letting go until the demo is over!😊 If you love conversational adventures, interactive fiction, text-based adventures, and Choose Your Own Adventure books, take a look at Ink Console!

Don't be jealous of me just because I'm reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame on the Nintendo 3DS please.

Shocking. The last time I checked (a while ago) authors earned £11k. Now it's £7k!!? The top 10% earn almost 50% of all author earnings. Female authors earn 41% less than men. This matters bc you either have to work 2 jobs or be rich to be an author. While Govt education devalues lit degrees/arts 😟

As a note to this: look into your local community ed programs for cooking classes. Minneapolis Public Schools has a knife skills course, as well as introduction to basic cooking, and they're often very reasonably priced!

From the Nurse’s office: A friendly reminder that the common cold is not cured by the “Everything's a Haiku” Enchantment, no matter how aesthetically pleasing the resulting symptoms may be. Please report to the infirmary for proper treatment. #EnchantifyAcademy #HealthAndSafety #NotAHaiku

I just think it’s neat that I can get the PC Gamer magazine through my library’s Libby app for free, along with other print magazines. I personally enjoy it because I usually end up reading about stuff that I normally wouldn’t since it’s right there anyway as I flip through the magazine

Oh no, am I a Morgenmuffel? I love to sleep in.